irclog2html for #brlcad on 20060813

01:02.17 *** join/#brlcad dli (n=dli@adsl-75-33-255-64.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net)
01:37.05 IriX64 guess not :(
01:43.55 IriX64 some people just like to watch ;)
03:15.43 brlcad what do you mean "will this work?"
03:16.25 brlcad it does what it's designed to do .. checks to make sure the dsp_mp pointer is a mapped file, though you spell FULE wrong
05:32.57 *** join/#brlcad digitalfredy (n=digitalf@200.71.62.161)
07:24.34 *** join/#brlcad clock_ (i=clock@84-72-61-250.dclient.hispeed.ch)
11:23.27 *** join/#brlcad clock_ (i=clock@84-72-61-250.dclient.hispeed.ch)
12:43.18 *** join/#brlcad ValarQ (i=vq@81-235-190-136-no48.tbcn.telia.com)
15:21.04 *** join/#brlcad digitalfredy (n=digitalf@200.71.62.161)
15:47.35 *** join/#brlcad clock_ (i=clock@84-72-61-250.dclient.hispeed.ch)
18:06.48 *** join/#brlcad DTRemenak (n=DTRemena@c-24-23-59-104.hsd1.ca.comcast.net)
18:15.34 *** join/#brlcad DTRemenak (n=DTRemena@c-24-23-59-104.hsd1.ca.comcast.net)
18:56.55 *** join/#brlcad DTRemenak (n=DTRemena@c-24-23-59-104.hsd1.ca.comcast.net)
19:27.37 IriX64 what i meant was does it return a null on success or error?
21:54.37 *** join/#brlcad danfalck (n=dan@pool-71-111-76-8.ptldor.dsl-w.verizon.net)
22:09.40 *** join/#brlcad digitalfredy (n=digitalf@200.71.62.161)
22:45.30 *** join/#brlcad myric (n=bryan@adsl-70-134-13-165.dsl.dytnoh.sbcglobal.net)
22:45.56 myric Hello all
22:46.58 myric Hey I downloaded the latest source for brlcad but it would not build.
22:47.56 myric http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/brlcad/brlcad-7.8.2.tar.gz
22:48.42 myric The file adrt/isst/observer/observer.c references a file splash.h that doesn't exist
22:49.09 myric and then the functions that are supposed to be there for showing a splash screen had to be commented out
22:56.24 dtidrow which OS are you building on?
23:06.08 myric linux
23:06.18 myric sorry didn't see your response
23:06.23 myric doesn't matter
23:06.59 myric #include "splash.h" when there's no "splash.h" breaks a build on any platform
23:18.13 dtidrow odd - it compiles fine for me on FC4
23:19.55 myric hmm
23:20.10 myric 7.8.0 or 7.8.2?
23:20.16 dtidrow 7.8.2
23:20.42 myric can you find a file in your source called splash.h
23:20.44 myric ?
23:20.56 myric maybe I gat a bad tar
23:20.57 dtidrow hang on - that was at my work machine
23:21.02 myric oh sorry
23:21.12 dtidrow np - just have to log into it
23:22.06 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/mged/ged.c: refix the command-line history bug that was inadvertently undone by the mac delete key patch
23:22.19 myric I'm running ubunto 6.06 on this pc btw
23:22.30 dtidrow nope, no splash.h there
23:22.33 myric hmm
23:23.12 myric mine either
23:23.24 myric and there's a reference to it in adrt/isst/observer/observer.c
23:23.28 dtidrow which file is the #include in?
23:23.40 myric i had to comment it out to get it to build
23:25.14 myric not really a problem since I figured it out. It'll just confuse people trying it for the first time if it happens to them.
23:26.14 dtidrow but where is it coming from?
23:26.40 dtidrow I wonder if it's a tk thing....
23:29.16 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/mged/ (ged.c history.c): make the command history pattern arg const
23:31.33 myric it was just a build error in a c file
23:31.49 myric We must have different files
23:31.57 myric somehow
23:32.19 myric I don't think tk uses .h files or .c files
23:35.24 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/mged/clone.c:
23:35.24 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: one step closer towards v5 database support, make function hooks match
23:35.24 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: db_functree interface (last param wasn't genptr_t). fix a memory leak related
23:35.24 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: to get_name(). keep track of whether objects are correctly cloned via get_name
23:35.24 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: lookups.
23:35.24 myric ohhh...
23:36.05 myric I did have to do some playing with configure options to get adrt to build at all
23:36.15 myric maybe you didn't build adrt?
23:37.41 brlcad myric: adrt auto-enables if it finds python and sdl
23:38.11 brlcad though it really shouldn't because it's as cross-platform-compiling capable as the rest of the package
23:38.42 myric it didn't on mine because it didn't find python
23:39.26 brlcad since you have sdl and python, you could conceivably get it to successfully build by fixing the Makefile.am's but it's not really critical
23:39.27 myric so I had to give a --with-python=/usr/include/python2.4/ switch
23:39.32 brlcad ahh
23:39.41 brlcad I'd suggest leaving that off ;)
23:39.44 myric I did that too
23:40.18 myric I also manually edited the Makefile.am, but I thought that was just me
23:40.30 myric since I configured it several times
23:40.33 brlcad should --disable-adrt ;)
23:40.41 myric what exactly is adrt
23:40.42 myric ?
23:40.48 myric I could look it up..
23:40.48 brlcad sdl and python aren't required for anything else
23:41.00 brlcad adrt is the "advanced distributed ray-tracer"
23:41.07 myric ah
23:41.17 myric I thought maybe it had something to do with the new archer
23:41.22 brlcad it's a very high-performance triangle ray-trace library, path tracer, and ray-tracer
23:42.14 brlcad specific to triangle-only models, but very nicely high-performing .. takes some configuration work to make use of it, some not well documented
23:42.24 brlcad nothing to do with archer
23:42.27 myric ok
23:42.38 myric I did get it to build
23:42.53 myric It just didn't build out of the box so to speak
23:42.59 brlcad archer also hasn't been set up for non-windows platforms yet either fwiw
23:43.04 myric and I wanted to let somebody know
23:43.09 brlcad it's not supposed to build out of the box yet ;)
23:43.17 myric ok then
23:43.43 myric I'd like to work on getting archer to work on linux.
23:43.49 brlcad it's on the to-do list, just hasn't been a priority
23:43.55 brlcad that'd be very cool
23:44.02 myric I've got a few hours to poke around tonight
23:44.34 brlcad it's run on linux, so it really should just be some pathing/setup issues
23:44.53 myric I know it runs on linux because I just build it
23:45.00 brlcad mac os x is the only platform that should actually require a little code (to load blt correctly from a dylib)
23:45.25 myric maybe I'm misunderstanding what archer is
23:46.05 brlcad most of archer doesn't require compilation.. getting it to "build" doesn't take too much :) getting it to fully run correctly, however, is another issue
23:46.06 myric Is it supposed to be a new user friendly modeling interface?
23:46.10 brlcad yes
23:46.18 myric ok so maybe not
23:47.00 myric I haven't done much programming in tcl, but I think I could get this to work.
23:47.09 myric What is it supposed to look like?
23:47.21 myric I get a blank window with a set of axes when i open it
23:47.33 myric and four buttons for zooming and rotating
23:47.47 myric oh it get the axes when I make a new db
23:48.35 myric I commented out the "package require blt" bit because blt commands seem to work fine without it
23:48.50 myric it was throwing an error
23:49.03 brlcad http://ftp.brlcad.org/images/archer.jpg
23:49.35 myric great, so I have something to work toward
23:49.46 myric I'm not getting the toolbar
23:50.12 brlcad lack of blt is probably why you have no toolbar
23:50.18 myric or the prompt, just the viewing window
23:50.23 myric hmm
23:50.33 brlcad some of the interface items are disabled by default
23:50.41 brlcad see the "advanced" mode on the menu
23:50.50 myric I tried running a few blt::blahblah commands in bwish and they seem to work fine
23:51.23 brlcad may have linked blt static
23:51.34 myric ah hah
23:51.38 myric I have a toolbar
23:52.19 brlcad cool
23:52.37 brlcad you may be mostly fully functional already then
23:54.44 myric yeah It actually seems to work
23:54.48 myric I'll play with it
23:55.52 myric I do remember something like "build static: yes" from the configure script
23:58.04 dtidrow just got back - figured that the adrt stuff didn't build
23:58.13 dtidrow which is why I didn't see any error

Generated by irclog2html.pl by Jeff Waugh - find it at freshmeat.net! Modified by Tim Riker to work with blootbot logs, split per channel, etc.